In this flamboyantly outrageous pastiche of 17th-century French comedy a vulgar and impossibly self-obsessed writer/perfomer (Mark Rylance) attempts to win the favour of a Royal Personage (Joanna Lumley) and ignominiously oust his high-minded rival (David Hyde-Pierce). All is accomplished in a virtuoso cascade of rhyming couplets! _x000D_
La Bête won the Olivier Award for Best Comedy when it first opened in London inWWWW 1992 with Alan Cumming in the lead. This long-awaited revival has the starriest cast under a star director Matthew Warchus (Art The Norman Conquests). Mark Rylance is best-known for his recent monumental performance in Jerusalem this Spring&rsquos biggest hit. David Hyde-Pierce is best-known from Frasier. And Joanna Lumley is best-known full stop.A tour de force that dazzles the audience &rsquo&rsquo Time Out on the London premiere
